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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Common Sawflies (Tenthredinidae) » Blennocampinae » Waldheimiini » Halidamia » Halidamia affinis
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Sawfly? - Halidamia affinis
Copyright © 2009 John F. Carr

Sawfly? - Halidamia affinis
Burlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 8, 2009
Size: 6 mm
It crawled around this plant (Galium aparine, see comments) for a while, much of the time under a leaf.

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Contributed by John F. Carr on 8 May, 2009 - 7:30pm
Last updated 14 February, 2010 - 3:14pm

Moved
Moved from Nematinae.
… v belov, 14 February, 2010 - 3:14pm login or register to post comments

Tenthredinidae, Blennocampinae
Halidamia affinis. Larva feeds on Galium spp.
… Dave Smith, 14 February, 2010 - 2:55pm login or register to post comments

Plant...
...may be cleavers (Galium aparine): stiff hairs on narrow leaf with single main vein. I am not a sawfly expert, but I notice a possible connection via the plant and general insect appearance to:
… John Pearson, 19 December, 2009 - 5:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Plant pictures
More pictures of plant here
… John F. Carr, 19 December, 2009 - 5:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Cleavers for sure
Thanks for the additional photos, that cinches it as Galium aparine.
… John Pearson, 19 December, 2009 - 5:14pm login or register to post comments

yes; something in Nematinae, i suppose
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… v belov, 8 May, 2009 - 7:33pm login or register to post comments

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